Planning Your Work Wardrobe: Dress Without Stress

Name: Planning Your Work Wardrobe: Dress Without Stress
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Organise your wardrobe, plan your outfits, and get on with your successful career!

Created byJulianne Benford

Last updated 7/2022

English

What you'll learn

You will set goals for your work wardrobe
Take a detailed inventory of your work-appropriate clothing
Create a cycle of outfits that can be worn over and over again
And identify problems with your workwear and/or your cycle and solve them!

Course content

6 sections • 20 lectures • 58m total length

Introduction: What Are Your Work Wardrobe Goals?3:04
Following this lecture, you will be able to start deciding what you want to personally achieve by completing this course.
What Is Your Dress Code?5:11
This lecture will help you decide how you need to dress to fall in line with your company's dress code, or choose a dress code (or more than one!) if you are self-employed.
How Do You Want Other People To See You?2:34
What personality, skills, and other qualities do you wish to communicate through your clothing choices?
Budgeting for Your Wardrobe2:34
Some of my thoughts on budgeting and how much you realistically need to spend on your work wardrobe, to help you decide on a budget.

The Outfit Plan4:38
This lecture explains what the outfit plan is and how to put yours together.
How Many Weeks Should I Plan For?0:40
In this lecture you will decide on the number of weeks in your cycle.
An Example: My Inventory and Three-Week Outfit Plan2:14
An example of an inventory and outfit plan that I produced for winter work outfits.
But What If People Notice I'm Repeating Outfits?2:28
In this lecture I will deal with all the concerns you might have about repeating your cycle.
I Can't Make Enough Outfits!1:43
Are you struggling to make enough outfits with the items you have in your inventory? Don't worry, I am here to help.
I Don't Have Enough Clothes! Making The Most of Budgets Large and Small5:55
This lecture features all my best advice for budgets large and small.
Finding Outfit Inspiration1:51
Some resources for finding outfit inspiration.

Help! I Split Soup On The Trousers I Was Going To Wear Again On Thursday!0:43
This lecture covers how to deal with mishaps that may mess up your cycle.
How To Dress for After-Work Special Occasions2:34
In this lecture I share one of my Rules for Life that will hopefully help you too.
What If I Get Bored?1:51
'What if I get bored following a plan?' Relax and watch this video! I also need sartorial excitement in my everyday life. There are ways to deal with it.
Planning Your Pandemic Wardrobe: What I've Learned by Dressing to Work from Home6:24
An update for November 2020 - reflecting on what I've learned about planning my work wardrobe while working from home.
Planning Your Post-Pandemic Wardrobe: How To Plan For Flexible Working3:52

Requirements

You will need a free afternoon, or a free day, depending on how many items of clothing you have.
If you haven't created a general personal budget before, it may help you to do this before beginning this course.

Description

Does getting dressed for work in the morning leave you feeling stressed and ill-prepared?
Have you invested time and money into building a fantastic wardrobe but find yourself wearing the same two or three outfits over and over, neglecting all the other items stuffed into your closet?
Would you love to wake up in the morning with a great outfit ready so all you have to do is put it on?

I've worked in places with all kinds of dress codes - from the extremely conservative to the extremely relaxed. I've spent time following strict guidelines, learned to express my creativity whilst still maintaining authority, and, most impressively, created comfortable and smart outfits incorporating uniform t-shirts!

I've received compliments everywhere. I even coped with a two and a half hour commute for three months without losing my mind or my style!

I believe that advanced planning brings advanced peace of mind. Think how much more prepared you would be for each day with your outfit already taken care of. Imagine what you could do with the time saved. You could exercise, study, learn a new skill, write a couple of hundred words on your novel, have a relaxed breakfast with your family - or just laze around in bed!

Join me. Get organised, save time, and set yourself up for success!

Who this course is for:

This course is for people who have plenty of work-appropriate clothing but still struggle to choose outfits that make them look and feel great every day.
This course is also for those who have difficulty creating work-appropriate outfits because they don't have enough clothes.
This course is for both large and small budgets - however much you want to spend on your clothes, this course can help you.
This course is for those who enjoy advance planning, or who are open to learning to love it!
This course is for people who have to follow dress codes at work, and for those who don't (or who think they don't!).
This course is not for people who have a assigned uniform to wear every day.
This course is not for people who don't enjoy planning.
This course is not for people who need basic guidance on style, dressing for their body shape, grooming, etc. This course is about how to plan your outfits for work - you should already have some idea of how to dress to look good.

Planning Your Work Wardrobe: Dress Without Stress

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Introduction - Your Work Wardrobe Goals4 lectures • 13min

Inventory1 lecture • 6min

Building The Outfit Plan7 lectures • 19min

Following the Plan1 lecture • 1min

Troubleshooting5 lectures • 15min

Bonus!2 lectures • 3min

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